Howdy Pedro, where abouts in Surrey are you? I'm in sunny Chessington!

Had some leftover Special B... wanted to make a chocolate stout... the homebrew got to me and I came up with this... What do you all think?! HOME BREW RECIPE: Title: Milk Chocolate Raisin Stout Brew Method: Extract Style Name: Sweet Stout Boil Time: 30 min Batch Size: 20 liters (fermentor...

Cheers mentor, not sure if this is going to be right, but ive copied a couple of recipes for your perusal here... HOME BREW RECIPE: Title: Kentish IPA Brew Method: Extract Style Name: English IPA Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 21 liters (fermentor volume) Boil Size: 27 liters Boil Gravity...

Firstly, sorry for the tardy reply, been working way too much and brewing way too little. Brian; hydrometer, thermometer(s) and volume measurements are all calibrated accurately unfortunately, so i don't think that it'll be that. I hear what you are saying about the unfermentables from the...

Thank you sbaclimber, but unfortunately the efficiency option doesn't make an awful lot of difference for extract brewing as the amount of speciality grains that are steeped is negligible compared to the amount of gravity points coming from the extract. Plus of course the grains are merely...

Utilisation is good, boiloff is around 4 liters for 60 minute boil inside, 3.5L outside. Usually start boil around the 21/22 liter mark, so end up around 17 liter-ish (Had a small boiler, recently upgraded) I see where you are coming from, but... if I were to dilute the wort to the pitch level...

Hi all, First post, although I'm a long time user of the site. To be honest, its my very first time posting onto any sort of forum, so apologies if its in the wrong place or anything!!! I've been having a somewhat minor problem for a while now and its giving me a major headache trying to work...